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[19TH CENTURY JAPANESE CERTIFICATE TO PROVE FAMILY WERE NOT CHRISTIANS].Biblio.com

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Three Letters Written by an English Family of Farmers Describing Life After Settling in Cleveland in the 1830s

1840470Cleveland 1840. Very good. 8pp. on three folded sheets. Folio. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. In a highly legible hand. Small archive of letters written by James and Mary Smith English farmers emigrated to Ohio by way of Lowell Massachusetts. The pair settled on a farm eight miles from Cleveland during a boom period -- in 1820 only 606 people lived in Cleveland and only around 1000 in 1830. The completion of the Ohio and Erie Canals however increased the population to nearly 6000 by the time the last of these letters was written in 1840. The Smiths had seven children at least one of whom John C. Smith 1814-1881 remained in Lowell working as a calico printer at the Merrimack Print Works. As a family of farmers the Smiths' correspondence focuses primarily on their land and the value of their harvest. In the winter of 1837 James and Mary tell their son. "We have completed our stable. It will hold ten head of cattle. We have 3 acres of wheat in which we intend to raise much produce as we can for Cleveland is a very good market. Our last butter we got 21 cents per pound flour is 7 dollars and 50 cents per barrel." By 1840 the Smiths' land is thriving: "Our crop of wheat is 66 bushels. The last years was the best year for wheat since we came here. we sold butter 424 pounds it made us over 70 dollars from 4 cows. The last fall we cleared six acres and put wheat in it. It is the most we have put in since we came. The last harvest we had 18 acres to mow 5 acres of wheat to reap 2 acres oats to reap and six acres of wheat to put in. We hired a man one week to help us. We did all rest ourselves. We have under cultivation 40 acres. Land is low because cash is so very scarce." Cash may have been scarce because of the region or due to the Panic of 1837 which hit the Smiths and their dairy in the next couple of years. A nice snapshot of the life of emigrant farmers in the Midwest during the 1830s. unknown books

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I / Isaac Watts; Dwight, Timothy (With Family Records Of John E Pool And Catherine Austin Poole)Biblio.com

The Psalms Of David Imitated In The Language Of The New Testament And Applied To The Christian Use And Worship. A New Edition. To The Psalms Is Added A Selection Of Hymns By Timothy Dwight / Hymns Selected From Dr. Watts Dr. Doddridge And Various Orther Writers According To The General Recommendation Of The Joint Committee Of The General Association Of Connecticutt And The General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In America With Handwritten Nineteenth Century Family Record Of John E. Austin And Catherine Pool

1817034466Albany: Websters And Skinners 1817. Hardcover. Fair. 578 Pp. Two Titles Consecutively Paginated Original Leather Binding. Separate Title Pages For The Psalms And For The Hymns. Spine Perished Covers Detached But Present Endpapers Removed Very Worn Rounded Corners. With The Handwritten Family Record Of John E. Austin And Catherine Pool Austin And Their Children On Pastedowns And Filling The Blank Page On The Reverse Of The Title Page For The Hymns P. 374. Faint Pencil Note On Rear Pastedown "Richville" Of Which There Are Several Small Towns Of That Name. Per Wikipedia Timothy Dwight 1752 - 1817 Was An American Academic And Educator A Congregationalist Minister Theologian And Author. He Was The Eighth President Of Yale College 1795-1817. His Mother Mary Edwards 1734-1807 Was The Third Daughter Of Theologian Jonathan Edwards. Dwight Was Said To Have Learned The Alphabet At A Single Lesson And To Have Been Able To Read The Bible Before He Was Four Years Old.He Had 12 Younger Siblings Including Journalist Theodore Dwight 1764-1846.Dwight First Came To Public Attention With His Yale College 1772 Commencement Address When He Received His M.A. Degree4 And Later His "Valedictory Address" Of 1776 In Which He Described Americans As Having A Unique National Identity As A New "People Who Have The Same Religion The Same Manners The Same Interests The Same Language And The Same Essential Forms And Principles Of Civic Government." In 1793 Dwight Preached A Sermon To The General Association Of Connecticut Entitled A "Discourse On The Genuineness And Authenticity Of The New Testament" Which When Printed The Next Year Became An Important Tract Defending The Orthodox Faith Against Deists And Other Skeptics. Dwight Was The Leader Of The Evangelical New Divinity Faction Of Congregationalism A Group Closely Identified With Connecticut's Emerging Commercial Elite. Although Fiercely Opposed By Religious Moderates Most Notably Yale President Ezra Stiles He Was Elected To The Presidency Of Yale On Stiles's Death In 1795. Shortly Afterwards Dwight Was Elected An Honorary Member Of The Connecticut Society Of The Cincinnati. His Ability As A Teacher And His Talents As A Religious And Political Leader Soon Made The College The Largest Institution Of Higher Education In North America. Dwight Had A Genius For Recognizing Able Protégé Such As James Murdock Lyman Beecher Nathaniel W. Taylor And Leonard Bacon All Of Whom Would Become Major Religious Leaders And Theological Innovators In The Antebellum Decades. During Troubled Times At Yale College President Timothy Dwight Saw His Students Drawn To The Radical Republicanism And "Infidel Philosophy" Of The French Revolution Including The Philosophies Of Hume Hobbes Tindal And Lords Shaftesbury And Bolingbroke. Between 1797 And 1800 Dwight Frequently Warned Audiences Against The Threats Of This "Infidel Philosophy" In America. An Address To The Candidates For The Baccalaureate In Yale College Called "The Nature And Danger Of Infidel Philosophy Exhibited In Two Discourses Addressed To The Candidates For The Baccalaureate In Yale College" Was Delivered On September 9 1797. It Was Published By George Bunce In 1798. This Book Is Credited As One Of The Embers Of The Second Great Awakening. Yale's Faculty Still Small And Theological At The End Of Its First Century Significantly Transformed When Dwight Hired Three New Professors Between 1801 And 1803: Jeremiah Day Professor Of Mathematics; James Luce Kingsley Professor Of Classical Languages; And Benjamin SillimanProfessor Of Chemistry And Geology.9 Silliman Yale's First Chemist Who Introduced Science Education At Yale Became The Patriarch Of American Science. Day A Minister As Well As A Mathematician Succeeded Dwight As Yale College President Upon His Death.Ghe Wielded Both The Temporal Sword As Head Of Connecticut's Federalist Party And Spiritual Sword As Nominal Head Of The State's Congregational Church. <br/> <br/> Websters And Skinners hardcover

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